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Anne Campbell was a prominent evolutionary psychologist most noted for her work examining sex differences in aggression and her ethnographic studies of female gang members.
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Anne Campbell received her Doctorate in Experimental Psychology at Oxford in 1977. Two years later, Campbell began researching female gang members by living in New York City and talking with members of three gangs. She published her findings in her book Girls in the Gang. In February of 2017, Anne Campbell passed away, but her research on sex differences in aggression and on the intrasexual aggression of women continues to inspire others (Cross 2017).
Anne Campbell’s work in the field of evolutionary psychology primarily focused on intrasexual aggression among women and female gang members. Campbell was one of the first evolutionary psychologists to articulate that women engage in...
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Coleman, B.R., McDonald, M.M. (2018). Anne Campbell. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_887-1
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